Car-coupling



J. CANDY. Gar Coupling.

Patented Sept. 28,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN CANDY, OF ROCK GROVE, ILLINOIS.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,594, dated September 28, 1880.

Application filed February 14, 1850.

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN CANDY, of Rock Grove, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Couplings for Railway FreightGars and I do hereby declare the following to be a specification descriptive of my said invention, reference being herein had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 is an end view of a railway freightcar provided with my improved coupling, and Fig. 2 a vertical central longitudinal section of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention relates to that class of railway car-couplings wherein the ordinary coupling pins and links are employed for the purpose of connecting the cars to each other.

The object of myinvention is to provide improved means for inserting and withdrawing the pins, and to render the link held in the mouth of one buffer more certain of entering the mouth of the opposite bqffer on another car automatically as the cars approach each other.

For the purpose of accomplishing these results, my invention consists in combining with the coupling-pins, levers pivoted to the end of the cars, so that it need not be necessary to go between the cars either to couple or uncouple them, and so that danger may thus be avoided; and-to cause the links to enter the buffers automaticallyI place a comparatively large roller in the mouth of the buffers, all of which will hereinafter be more particularly described and specifically set forth.

In the drawings, A represents the box or body of a railway freight-car. B is the buffer. C is the coupling-pin, and D the coupling-link.

E is a horizontally-arranged lever, pivoted at one end to the end of the car, and near one of the lower corners thereof, as represented in Fig. 1. The coupling-pin is pivoted to the central part of this lever, and the free end of the lever enters the guide or plate F. E is also a horizontally-arran ged lever placed above the lever E.

The lever E is pivoted, at or nearits center, to the car, and linked at one end to the free end of the lever E by means of the link H.

The free end of the leverE is covered by the guide or plate F. The free ends of the levers E and E are thus extended to the opposite sides of the cars and far enough beyond to be grasped with facility.

I is a vertical bar or slide extending above the top of the car. The lower end of this bar is pivoted to the lever E at a point near the pivoted or linked end of the said lever, as represented. I! is a clasp or guide to retain the bar I in a vertical position.

To raise or lower the coupling-pin the free end of either the lever E or the lever E must be raised or lowered, as occasion may require, and this maybe done bya person standing at either side of the car, and there is no necessity for going between the cars for that purpose; hence much danger is avoided. Aperson 011 the top of the car may also raise and lower the coupling-pin by raising and lowering the connecting-bar I.

K is a comparatively large roller, extending laterally across the mouth of the buffer, enough space being left above the roller to allow the coupling link to enter freely. The interior front edges of the mouth of the buffer should be beveled to aid the entrance of the link; but in many cases it may not be necessary to bevel these edges, and I do not, therefore, regard the beveling as essential. This roller maybe hung in the buffer in any suitable way which will allow the entrance of the link.

It will be perceived that the link, striking the roller above the center of the latter, will be conducted into the mouth of the buffer, and to a position such that the pin G, when lowered, will enter the link, and thus result in the coupling of the cars, it being understood that the mouth of the buffer, at the point entered by the pin, is only a little broader than the link.

Bent links may be employed to couple cars not the same in height, or when the buifers are not the same height above the track.

A car provided with the coupling described I may also be coupled to one provided with the ordinary coupling-pin and link only.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in connection with a railway freight-car, of the lever E, pivoted at in g across the mouth thereof and arranged 10 one end to the end of the car, coupling-pin (l, sufficiently low therein to allow the couplingpivoted to the lever E, lever E, pivoted at or link to enter above the roller, substantially as near its center to the end of the car and linked and for the purposes specified.

5 to the free end of the lever E, and the vertical slide I, connected to the said levers, substan- JOHN CANDY. tially as and for the purposes specified. Witnesses:

2. The combination of the roller K with the J. I. FISHER,

buffer of a railway-car, the said roller extend- H. O. FRANKEBERGER. 

